University of Alberta and City of Edmonton Grand Challenge Collaboration

The City of Edmonton (CoE) and the Governors of the University of Alberta (UofA) realize the shared interests and vision of our institutions through the ‘City of Edmonton and Post-Secondary Senior Advisory Committee (PS-SAC)’ engagement program. As such, the UofA and the CoE have prioritized leveraging each other’s strengths and interests to advance social and community innovation initiatives that address jointly identified societal ‘grand challenges’ in Edmonton. For the collaboration to be successful, a shared community innovation platform needs to be developed and operationalized. The project of interest will seek to identify current municipal-post-secondary collaboration models and initiatives to determine best practices. The project will seek to identify the range of resources and funding opportunities that could be leveraged. The partners will aim to conduct projects through the newly developed collaboration model.

Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Summers

Student:

Partner:

City of Edmonton

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Public administration

University:

University of Alberta

Program: